Natural Radiance: Exploring the Liberating Nature of Awareness (239R21)
Mark Coleman, MA and devon hase
February 18 - 22, 2021
Registration open until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on February 17, 2021. A waiting list will be created if the retreat fills early.
Description:
Awareness is the secret jewel innate in everyone. Awareness illuminates experience that supports clarity, understanding and insight. It is the foundation for wisdom, compassion and awakening.
In this silent meditation retreat we will explore this innate quality of awareness—what it is and how to cultivate and abide in that serene awake presence. We will investigate how mindfulness supports a depth of awareness through various meditation practices, and look at what obscures the clarity of awareness both in meditation and in life. As mindfulness grows we discover how this capacity for awareness is available in every moment.
We will also explore the fusion of love and awareness and how developing awareness allows a natural opening of the heart, which fosters a kind and compassionate awareness to ourselves, to others and to all experience.
Ideally participants will have already attended one silent mindfulness retreat prior to this retreat. The general daily retreat day will be from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. all 5 days.
Daily Schedule (Bolded sessions encouraged to attend; times are Pacific Time)
Opening Day
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Tech Orientation
8:50 AM – 9:00 AM Arrive and Settle
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Opening Session
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Walking Meditation
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Sitting Meditation
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Walking Meditation
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Sit with Q/A
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Meal Break
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Rest or Walking Meditation
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Sit
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Walking Meditation
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Sitting Meditation
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Dharma Talk with Q/A
Main Days
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Guided Sit with Q/A
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Small Group Practice (for some) or Walking Meditation
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Sitting Meditation
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Small Group Practice (for some) or Walking Meditation
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Sit with Q/A
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Meal Break
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Rest or Walking Meditation
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Sit
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Walking Meditation
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Sitting Meditation
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Dharma Talk with Q/A
Closing Day
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Guided Sit with Q/A
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Small Group Practice (for some) or Walking Meditation
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM Sitting Meditation
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Small Group Practice (for some) or Walking Meditation
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Sit with Q/A
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Meal Break
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Rest or Walking Meditation
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Sit
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Walking Meditation
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Sitting Meditation
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Closing Session
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
About the Teachers
Mark Coleman, MA
Mark has trained extensively in the Buddhist tradition, both in the Insight meditation and in the Dzogchen tradition. He is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has taught insight meditation retreats since 1997. Mark is a life-long nature lover and is passionate about guiding people into the beauty of meditation and nature. […]
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devon hase
devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of her life: she spent a decade bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms and now teaches at the Insight Meditation […]
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